Iranian police announced on Saturday that is installing cameras In public places to identify women who do not wear the veil, a new repressive measure aimed at imposing the use of this mandatory garment in the Islamic country.
“In an innovative measure to avoid tensions and conflicts in the application of the veil law, Police will use smart tools and cameras in public places and roads to identify people (not wearing hijab)”, indicated the security body in a statement cited by the agency tasnim.
The security body explained that messages will be sent to women who do not comply with the law of the veil and chastity, “informing them of the consequences”.
“The Police will not tolerate any individual or collective behavior contrary to the law,” according to the statement.
The headscarf has been compulsory in Iran since 1983 and failure to wear it can be punished by imprisonment..
The measure is intended to “preserve family values, strengthen mental health and guarantee the peace of citizens” and to avoid acts that “dirty” the spirituality of the country, according to the Police.
Many Iranian women have stopped wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf as a way of protest and civil disobedience since death in September Mahsa Amini after being arrested precisely for wearing the hijab badly.
Amini’s death sparked strong protests across the country in which the end of the Islamic Republic was requested and in which the universities, institutes and even colleges played an important role.
State repression led to the deaths of some 500 people in the protests over the death of Amini, the arrest of thousands and four protesters were hanged, one of them in public.
In recent weeks, Tensions have intensified due to the lack of use of this garmentmandatory in the country since 1983, with calls from clerics and conservatives to impose the hijab.
The Ministries of Education and Health announced on Monday that they will not allow students who do not wear a headscarf to attend universities or institutes. “All universities and higher education centers dependent on this Ministry of Education are exempt from providing educational and social services to the few students who do not comply with the rules and regulations of the universities,” said the Ministry of Education in a statement cited by the agency Fars.
The department stated that “the veil and chastity are an obligation” of the students, who must abide by the laws of the country.
For its part, the Ministry of Health stated that the universities under its supervision they will not serve students who do not cover themselves with a veil. The ad matches the restart of the school year after the two-week Persian New Year holiday, Nowruz.
The authorities also shops and restaurants are closing who serve discovered women all over the country. Added to this are the “watchmen” who take the law into their own hands and attack naked women. At the end of March, a video in which a man throws yogurt over the heads of two women for not wearing the veil went viral.
(With information from EFE)
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